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Re: DoS, ICMP, proxies, SYNDefender
- From: Tim Bass
- Date: Thu Oct 03 18:01:40 1996
> Tim, unfortunately ICMP UNREACHABLE can be sent some intermediate
> router during routing flip process. For this reason some customer
> prefer cut off this sort of ICMP - it would break running TCP connection.
Understood, however the conditions to terminate the connection
is not just as simple as UNREACHABLE. A few possible conditions:
(1) UNREACHABLE && TCP_SYN_STATE
(2) UNREACHABLE && TCP_SYN_STATE && sk->time_in_state
VR,
Tim
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